Okay so my laziness has gotten out of control. I have this document zoomed into 200 so that I can lay in bed and type it. Reminds me of my university roommate a few years ago who had her desk chair perfectly positioned so that she could reach the TV, microwave, the fridge, her computer and if need be her text books. I miss her. But god that room was small...

Okay. So. Here is another chapter. (I can't get no) Satisfaction. 'Cause everyone is having a bad day and is stuck with the realization that they brought it on themselves.

Enjoy

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I can't get no satisfaction.

'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.

I can't get no, I can't get no.

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Addison sank further into the warm bath water. After living in that trailer for so long she was taking baths as frequently as possible. And the bathtub being installed in her new house was beyond luxurious. It was the best.

Addison looked around her small bathroom. It was only slightly bigger then the trailer's, but it had a tub and real walls, actual counter space, and the shower was actually inside the bathroom.

And it was the only room that felt like hers. She had bought some furniture, picked it out carefully to go with what she envisioned for her house, but most would be delivered there, only a few pieces came to the apartment, giving it a cold un-welcoming feel.

Her bachelorette pad.

She hated everything about it.

She held out her hand and examined the rings she still had on her left hand. Deftly removing them she dangled them between her index finger and thumb.

She was definitely not giving them back to Derek. They were hers, she should be able to do with them as she wanted. Derek would probably wait awhile then sell them, buy something for some other woman. Like Meredith.

Besides, he shouldn't get to cheat on her, break her heart repeatedly, not apologize, cause her grief trying to tell her he doesn't want out, and on top of all that get her favorite jewelry.

She considered for a brief moment dropping them in the tub and letting them go down the drain. It seemed fitting enough. But what good were her rings going to do swirling around the Seattle sewer system.

She was keeping them.

Not only was she keeping them, she was wearing them, there was no reason that she should be denied fine jewelry. She'd go so far as to say she was entitled. She moved the rings on to her right hand.

Perfect.

Absolutely perfect.

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"Meredith relax," Izzie curled up in the corner of the couch braiding and re-braiding her hair, the phone pressed to her ear,

"I just know I am going to end up with Derek today. Bailey has nothing surgical today so she is not going to let me just tag along with her, besides, I can't work with Bailey forever, as much as I'd like to. I don't think I can avoid being assigned to neuro. I think I'm safe on OB. It goes without saying that Addison gets Alex."

"Plus she probably doesn't want to see you."

Meredith was silent for a moment, "Thanks, Izzie."

"You slept with her husband."

"Don't remind me."

Izzie paused sympathetically,"Could you work with Callie? Or with Burke's replacement?"

Meredith sighed and lowered her voice as she saw George walking in her general direction.."George and Callie have been working on this huge case all week, and since he doesn't know about... well I can't really ask him to switch with me. And Cristina is dying to work in Cardio again, and she hasn't been because of me, she been volunteering for neuro, and that's not fair. So I am going to end up with neuro. With Derek. I would do anything to get out of this."

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Derek sat slouched over the table adjacent to his wife. Another set of divorce papers sat in the space between them. Derek placed even more weight on the pen that was under his hands.

"Holding the pen hostage is not going to stop this divorce Derek," Addison muttered irritably, turning her chair even further away from him.

Derek just glared at her and stubbornly pushed the papers further away.

Addison lawyer finally spoke, "Dr. Shepherd, I am sure that your lawyer explained to you that we don't actually need your signature to proceed, but it would make the process allot easier and less stressful."

Derek's lawyer nodded at him, but Derek just ignored him and glared at them both.

Turning more towards Addison he spoke, "You said that if I signed you would sign, I'm not signing. For the second time I am not signing. You cannot sign these papers."

"That was long time ago. Allot has changed."

"I know, we were getting better. We were working on it. Why are you doing this?"

Addison spun in her chair, her eye's flashing, "I'm doing this? You slept with Meredith."

"You slept with my best friend first!"

"And that makes it ok? God Derek. You never even apologized for Meredith. You just pretended it never happened. At least when I cheated owned up to it."

"I caught you in bed with him!"

"And I apologized for that. Repeatedly."

"Fine, I am sorry. I am sorry, I am sorry, I am sorry. Will you please come home now?"

"Derek, sign the papers!"

"No!"

"Sign the papers!"

"No."

Addison hand shot out to grab the pen from her husband, but before she could, his hand grabbed hers.

His face seemed to fall and smirk simultaneously, "Are you trying to tell me something?" he asked quietly, brushing his fingers over the wedding rings that now graced the middle finger of her right hand.

"Don't make this any harder Derek," She begged quietly, starting to pull her hand away.

He held her hand firmly, "Things like this," he said softly still looking at her rings, "Make me remember how we were."

"That was along time ago, things have changed."

"Not everything."

Addison was silent along time, "Please sign the papers."

Derek tried to hold her hand tighter, but this time she firmly pulled away. "I can't do that. I'm sorry. I can't."

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Bailey stood in front of her interns. She was fed up with their personal lives dictating who she assigned them too. But requests were requests, and she couldn't completely ignore them.

"O'Malley, your with Torres, again. And Karev, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Montgomery-Shepherd is gonna want you. Grey, I'm guessing your going to want cardio?"

Meredith gave Cristina a side long glance and shook her head reluctantly.

Bailey raised an eyebrow, "Okay, Yang it's yours."

Cristina lit up slightly, and smiled appreciatively at Meredith.

"So, Grey that leads you with... Shepherd..."

Meredith sighed and reached for the chart.

"Hey," Alex stopped her, "I'll trade you Montgomery-Shepherd for Shepherd."

Meredith glanced at Bailey.

Bailey shrugged, "It's up to you, choose your Shepherd."

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"I'm with Addison," Meredith whispered into her phone.

Izzie cradled her portable, against her shoulder as she adjusted her shirt in the mirror, "Bailey put you with Addison?"

"She let me choose."

"And you chose McDreamy's wife?"

"He is not McDreamy." Meredith sighed as the elevator doors closed around her, "And Addison is mad but, that just means that she will leave me alone right? I mean, I worked with her when she first got to town, she was perfectly civil."

"They weren't together then, and you hadn't knowingly slept with her husband."

"So you think I should have worked with Derek?"

Izzie shrugged and smoothed her hair, "Derek doesn't hate you."

"That's the problem," Meredith sighed, "What are you doing?"

"Getting ready to go out."

"Out?" Meredith asked in surprised, "Where are you going?"

Izzie paused, "I... I've decided... I'm going to start seeing a therapist."

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Addison stood above an incubator examining her rings. It had hurt Derek to see what she had done with them. But at the same time he almost seemed to admire it.

The man was infuriating.

And he was still refusing to sign the papers. She hated that he was doing that. As hard as she tried not to, it made her feel hopeful that maybe they did stand a chance, that he really did want to be with her and work things out.

But then she would see Meredith and she would remember, the only reason that he isn't signing is that he doesn't want to be alone, Meredith didn't want to be with him and so he was settling for her.

She heard a throat clear behind her and she turned around.

"I've been assigned to you for the day."

Addison sighed and faced Meredith fully, "Where is Karev?"

"He is working with Der... Dr. Shepherd," Meredith paused, "Bailey let us switch, I hope you don't mind."

Addison smirked slightly, "You chose to work with me?"

Meredith couldn't help but smile a bit at her tone. "It seemed safer."

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"Karev," Derek greeted Alex with a smile, "So my wife decided you've suffered enough?"

Alex shrugged, "I switched with Grey."

Derek's face immediately fell, "Meredith wanted to work with Addison."

"Dude, I don't know. All I know is she didn't want to work with you, and I have had enough of the cervix squad."

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"So?" Izzie asked the second Meredith answered her phone.

"So," Meredith replied in a hushed tone, trying not to attract Addison's attention, "She is ignoring me. She hands me the chart, I read it, and follow her around."

"Sounds fun. What kind of cases are there? Anything good?" Izzie asked eagerly.

"Everything is textbook, if there is something good, she's not telling me."

Izzie sighed heavily.

"Are you bored?" Meredith teased.

Izzie sighed. "I need to find a job, I am going stir crazy."

"Dr. Grey," Addison called from across the room, motioning her to come over.

"Gotta go," Meredith murmured, "She talking to me."

"Is my department not exciting enough for you?" Addison questioned.

"No. I mean it is. It's just..."

Addison raised an eyebrow.

"I was talking to Izzie, she's alone all day, with nothing to do and well... She's lonely, and miserable... and... well you don't exactly have me doing anything."

Addison held up her hand, "How is Izzie?"

Meredith was slightly taken back by the concern in Addison's voice, "She's not great... but, she's decided to go into therapy and..."

Addison nodded, "I've been worried about her."

"Oh," Meredith replied awkwardly, "Listen, I know you don't want to work with me, but..."

"Your right, I don't. But truthfully, it makes me feel rather triumphant that you would rather work with my hostility then with Derek's..."

"McNeedy-ness?" she offered.

Addison smiled, "Exactly."

Meredith paused, "I'm sorry that I ruined you marriage..."

Addison took a bracing sigh, "You didn't. I did. I did and he did. You just..."

"Made things worse..."

Addison shook her head, "No. Never mind. I am trying really hard not to hate you, and talking about this is making it difficult."

"You should hate me."

"No I shouldn't, since you sl... since it happened, you have been more honest and straightforward then my husband has. I can't hate you for that."

"I am so sorry."

"But are you really?"

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Derek leaned against the back of the elevator and sighed. He was heading up to neonatal. He knew that both Addison and Meredith were up there and he was determined to get at least one of them to talk to him.

The doors slide open and Derek smiled when he saw Meredith standing on the other side.

Meredith took one look at him and turned and headed for the stairs.

"Meredith," Derek called after her, starting to follow.

"Don't even think about it," Bailey ordered, forcing him back into the elevator.

"Hello Miranda," Derek greeted her with annoyance.

"Stay away from the elevators."

"What?"

"Stay away from the elevators, your making my life difficult. And I don't like when your screwed up love life effect me and my day."

"How can me riding the elevator be effecting you life?" he teased.

"Because my interns are avoiding the elevators like they contain the bubonic plague, which means it takes them twice as long to respond to pages. Not to mention the fact that this hospital currently contains an intern, a resident and an attending all of whom cringe, flinch and gag whenever the subject of elevators, brains and my personal favorite hair come up" she glared at him, "Stay out of the elevator."

"Well help me fix this, then we can all go back to riding the elevator in peace."

Bailey gave him an incredulous look and stopped the elevator, "Fix what?"

"Fix this. I just want everything back how it was. Back to normal. Neither of them will even talk to me, they are both avoiding me... I feel like I just can't win. I try to fix things with Addison and she just gets madder. When I try to talk to Meredith she gets mad too, and then Addison gets even madder. And I just can't get it to stop," he turned to Bailey, "How do I make it stop? Tell me how to fix it.."

Bailey stared at him for along time, "You are stupider then I give you credit for. You can't fix this. Leave them alone."

"I can't do that," Derek murmured, "I am not walking away again. Not this time"

"Who are you talking about?" she demanded.

Derek was silent.

"Oh I could strangle you, " Bailey turned and restarted the elevator, "You can only be with one."

"But how do I know which one...?"

Bailey gave him a hard stare, "You know that tall redhead? The one that handed you the divorce papers your refusing to sign?" Bailey paused as the elevator doors opened, "I think she decided for you."

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I love what Addison did with her ring. My girl is so creative.

The next chapter is good. Muahaha

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